The young barrister was worn out by a long day spent in hurrying from place to place.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

[ 62 ] The writer, a street chaunter of ballads and last dying speeches, alludes in his letter to two celebrated criminals—Thos.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

59 The writer, a street chaunter of ballads and last dying speeches, alludes in his letter to two celebrated criminals, Thos Drory, the murderer of Jael Denny, and Sarah Chesham, who poisoned her husband, accounts of whose Trials and “Horrid Deeds” he had been selling.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

The root is long, great and yellow, like unto the wild Docks, but a little redder; and if it be a little dried, shews less store of discoloured veins than the other does when it is dry.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Maggie could make no answer but a long, deep sob of that mysterious, wondrous happiness that is one with pain.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

“Hester Prynne,” said he, leaning over the balcony and looking down steadfastly into her eyes, “thou hearest what this good man says, and seest the accountability under which I labor.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

There had been a hard frost, eleven degrees Réaumur, without snow, but a little dry snow had fallen on the frozen ground during the night, and a keen dry wind was lifting and blowing it along the dreary streets of our town, especially about the market-place.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Rilla put on her georgette gown, knotted up her hair and bound a little double string of pearls around it.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

It is not what Europeans call an Opera, but a little drama set to music.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

‘What am I now?’ asked Betty at last, perching [ 157 ] on a beam, and looking down sideways bird fashion on the Wise Woman.
— from The Piskey-Purse: Legends and Tales of North Cornwall by Enys Tregarthen

"It has been a long day," she assented gravely.
— from The Business of Life by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Of course she thought a good deal about it, but the blessed wisdom of content was strong in her, and not even by a look did she display special interest.
— from Isabel Clarendon, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Gissing

We could not possibly get near the Pole itself by a long distance, says Greely, as “we know almost as well as if we had seen it that there is in the unknown regions an extensive land which is the birthplace of the flat-topped icebergs or the palæocrystic ice.”
— from Farthest North, Vol. I Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

Cockburn and Sandilands were conducted to the castle of Edinburgh, Wishart to Hailes, the house of Bothwell, who for some time refused to give him up to the cardinal, but at length did so under promise of a great reward.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

It would have been a less difficult sacrifice for St. Paul to profess that he renounced all things for religion, if he had had nothing to renounce; and to count all things as dross in the comparison, if he had had no gold to put in the empty scale.
— from Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More